From the Book - 3rd edition.
Part 1: Economics : the science of how people deal with scarcity
1. What economics is and why you should care
2. Cookies or ice cream? Exploring consumer choices
3. Producing stuff to maximize happiness
Part 2: Microeconomics : the science of consumer and firm behavior
4. Supply and demand made easy
5. Introducing Homo Economicus, the utility-maximizing consumer
6. The core of capitalism : the profit-maximizing firm
7. Why economists love free markets and competition
8. Monopolies : bad behavior without competition
9. Oligopoly and monopolistic competition : middle grounds
Part 3: Applying the theories of microeconomics
10. Property rights and wrongs
11. Asymmetric information and public goods
12. Health economics and healthcare finance
13. Behavioral economics: investigating irrationality
Part 4: Macroeconomics : the science of economic growth and stability
14. How economists measure the macroeconomy
15. Inflation frustration : why more money isn't always good
16. Understanding why recessions happen
17. Fighting recessions with monetary and fiscal policy
18. Grasping the origins and effects of financial crises
19. Ten seductive economic fallacies
20. Ten economic ideas to hold dear
21. Ten (or so) famous economists
